Dr Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (1907-1990)
Rosalind Pitt-Rivers helped discover the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine T3.
Dr Rosalind Pitt-Rivers was a pioneering biochemist linked with the discovery of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine T3 in 1952. She became the first woman president of the European Thyroid Association in 1971, and in 1973 was made a fellow of Bedford College.
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